Obituary

Lieutenant Palmer, son of ex-Surgeon General Palmer, was born in Maryland in 1851. He was appointed to the Naval Academy by President Lincoln on July 20, 1863, graduating in 1868, and was promoted to lieutenant Nov. 10, 1872. He was married about two years and a half ago to Miss Ashurst, of Philadelphia and Newport, and leaves to children, who are with their mother in Washington. He was transferred from the Huron about ten days ago to the Swatara, but succeeded in having the order revoked, and returned to his ship to meet his death. He was a steady-going and reliable young man.

Lieut. Lambert G. Palmer
If it proves, as is sadly anticipated, that Lieut. Lambert G. Palmer, of the ill-fated Huron, was among the number who perished in the storm and darkness of Friday night of Kittyhawk, the wedding of his sister and Mr. Adams, of the British Legation, which was to have occurred upon Thanksgiving Day, will doubtless be postponed. The young lieutenant whom we remember to have seen last summer so full of life and promise among the gay society of Fortress Monroe while his vessel was stationed in Hampton Roads, was only twenty-six years old. He was a son of Commodore J.C Palmer, United States Navy and brother of Aulich Palmer, United States Marine Corp and was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1863 by President Lincoln. Less than three short years ago he was married to one of Philadelphia’s [should be Baltimore] fairest daughters, Miss Ashurst, who now resides with her two babies – the youngest an infant of but few months – on Sixteenth Street, near F. It is generally a mistaken kindness that, fearing to break bad news too suddenly, withholds definite information, even for an hour. The heart is a muscle and cannot break, but any certainty, however terrible, is better than the agonizing suspense between hope and fear, which sometimes whitens heads and does the work of years in a single night.